Apart from No Direction Home Francis Booth is the author of several books on twentieth century culture: Amongst Those Left: The British Experimental Novel 1940-1960 (published by Dalkey Archive); Everybody I Can Think of Ever: Meetings That Made the Avant-Garde Girls in Bloom: Coming of Age in Mid-20th Century Women's Fiction A Girl Named Vera Can Never Tell a Lie: The Novels of Vera Caspary Text Acts: Twentieth Century Literary Eroticism Comrades in Art: Revolutionary Art in America 1926-1938 Francis is also the author of two novel series: The Code 17 series, set in the Swinging London of the 1960s and featuring aristocratic spy Lady Laura Summers Young adult fantasy series The Watchers